3:03 AM,
Jul. 24, 2013

2005 C-J file photo of Robert Lee, operator of the Clark-Floyd Landfill, standing in front of an expansion at the site.

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When a Clark County highway worker received a $14,000 raise along with a promotion to supervisor in 2009, county commissioners told the operator of the Clark-Floyd Landfill to pay for it using part of the county's share of landfill money, county records show.

The records also show the landfill operator paid part of the salary of the employee, current county highway supervisor Jim Ross, as if he were a landfill subcontractor rather than allowing the county to pay him after the full share was deposited into county coffers.

But the expenses were never appropriated by the County Council, as state ...